“I can’t say exactly. She wrote and told me she had married a rich man, and since then she’s always allowed me ten shillings a week, and with the little bit of money I had that made me very comfortable.”
“Did you know whom she married?”
“No. I didn’t know the name.”
“How did you address your letters to her when you wrote?”
“I used to write them to Miss Manuel. She told me to.”
“What address did you send them to?”
“I always sent them to her at an address she gave me.” The old lady mentioned the address, but it told Tempest nothing. He guessed it to be an accommodation address—a surmise which subsequently proved correct.
“How did you get to know of your daughter Dorothy’s death?”
“Sarah Jane—her ladyship—wrote and told me.”
“Did she tell you where she died?”